U.S. History Unit 6.1 Vocabulary Quizizz

A key factor in the growth of industry in the U.S.

• Big Business

• Railroads

• Steel Industry

• Oil Industry

The railroad constructed to connect the U.S. from coast to 

coast.

• The Locomotive

• Manifest Destiny

• Popular Sovereignty

• Transcontinental Railroad

They worked under dangerous conditions and provided 

much of the labor that built the nation’s western railroad

• Irish and Chinese Immigrants in building railroads

• Manifest Destiny

• Popular Sovereignty

• Transcontinental Railroad

The industry that grew because the railroad and the new 

processes to make steel.

• Big Business

• Railroads

• Steel Industry

• Oil Industry

Large companies that established monopolies and 

generated a significant amount of wealth for their owners.

• Big Business

• Railroads

• Steel Industry

• Oil Industry

Builder of the New York Central railroad and big 

businessman.

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• J.P. Morgan

Largest businessman in the steel industry.

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• J.P. Morgan

Bought Carnegie’s steel business and was a famous banker.

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• J.P. Morgan

Business giant who made it big in the oil industry and 

founded Standard Oil, the nation’s first trust.

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• J.P. Morgan

A business arrangement under which a number of 

companies unite into one system, in effect destroying competition and creating a monopoly.

• Monopoly

• Trust

• Big Business

• Transcontinental Railroad